Commentary

West Indies’ Jason Holder (second left) and teammates celebrate the dismissal of Nepal’s Aarif Sheikh during the ICC T20 World Cup cricket match in Mumbai, India on February 15.
March 31, 2026

Editorial | CWI gobbledygook

Cricket West Indies (CWI) – and by extension West Indies cricket – has a problem. CWI is so addicted to obfuscation and opacity that even when it has a credible case to argue, its inclination to…
In this March 2019 photo Peace Corps Jamaica 90th group of volunteers pose for a group photograph.
March 31, 2026

Gordon Robinson | What’s good for the goose ...

On February 22, 1962, Premier Norman Washington Manley, on Jamaica’s behalf, signed a seminal agreement between Jamaica and USA. It involved the Peace Corps and provided for young American volunteers…
Representational photo of school children in a class.
March 31, 2026

Steve Sider and Kishi Anderson Leachman | Gatekeepers of inclusion and the invisible padlocks

Across the Caribbean, access is often negotiated through unspoken rules – how one looks, speaks, or is perceived within social hierarchies shaped by class, colour, and privilege. Those who do not…
Dr Appolenon Lee Gordon, university lecturer and TVET practitioner
March 31, 2026

Appolenon L. Gordon | TVET is more than a philosophy: Time to put our money where the mandate is

For years, the buzzword echoing through the halls of education ministries and economic summits has been TVET (Technical and Vocational Education and Training). It is hailed as the "engine of…
Oil tankers and cargo ships line up in the Strait of Hormuz, as seen from Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates.
March 30, 2026

Editorial | Hormuz and fertiliser

In the month since the United States and Israel attacked Iran – and Tehran’s retaliatory closure of the Strait of Hormuz – the world’s attention, including Jamaica’s – has been primarily on its …
AI-generated representational image of students in a classroom.
March 30, 2026

Ronald Thwaites | Of dying and rising

In this mystical season where it appears that evil and death prevail then life, abundant life, eternal life, is restored, let us pause and re-examine our human purposes. What do Jamaicans really want…
This file photo shows people waiting to exercise their franchise on election day.
March 30, 2026

Lloyd Barnett | Safeguarding the franchise

An essential requirement of democracy is that the government must be a government by the people. This means that those who govern must truly have been selected by the people. In this connection,…
“Reparations isn’t about looking for someone to blame today. It’s about asking a simple question: if something was broken, and we can still see the effects, do we have a responsibility to fix it?”: Dean Jones, founder of Jamaica Homes.
March 30, 2026

The price still being paid

Two centuries after emancipation, the case is no longer historical – it is immediate. The setting was formal. The language was careful. But the message carried weight. At the Organization of…
Gleaner editorial writes: But the [NaRRA] bill has serious problems. While it gets the mission broadly right, it does not yet meet the criteria public bodies in Jamaica actually need to be successful.
March 29, 2026

Editorial | Fixing the NaRRA Bill

The bill to establish the National Reconstruction and Resilience Authority (NaRRA), the agency to lead Jamaica’s post-hurricane reconstruction, gets several important things right. But there are many…